Virtual team effectiveness: A proposed research agenda

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 249-269

  Furst, Stacie ^a   Blackburn, Richard ^a   Rosen, Benson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Team effectiveness; Virtual teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001350586     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2575.1999.00064.x     Document Type: Article

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